These photos were taken on a busy couple of days between Christmas and New Year's, 2009. Activities included the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, as well as a stroll at Muir Woods National Monument, a waterfront walk in picturesque Sausalito, and an intimate concert with Further, featuring members of The Grateful Dead, at the 200-capacity Masonic Center in Mill Valley, Calif. (My SLR camera was not permitted, so I could only to get poor-to-fair shots of the show with a point-and-shoot camera.) Photos by Alan Sheckter / AlSheck@comcast.net. Photos may not be published without expressed written consent by the photographer.